Azure Sentinel Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Azure Sentinel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 50 53
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 1.30% 0.28% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.63% 0.77% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - £865
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £880
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -40.34% -
75th Percentile - - £895
90th Percentile £630 - -
South West median daily rate £563 £525 £650
% change year-on-year +7.14% -19.23% +30.00%

All Cloud Skills
Gloucestershire

Azure Sentinel falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 190 130 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 49.48% 35.91% 40.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 81 126
10th Percentile £300 £450 £381
25th Percentile £446 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £641 £650 £688
90th Percentile £700 £734 £738
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 9
10th Percentile £31.53 - £19.10
25th Percentile £31.56 £30.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £34.59 £67.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.76% -10.00% -22.08%
75th Percentile £44.68 £70.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £60.30 - £78.90
South West median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% +46.34% -64.50%

Azure Sentinel
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Sentinel relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Azure Sentinel job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Azure Sentinel.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Azure Sentinel

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Sentinel in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Sentinel in Gloucestershire

Azure Sentinel
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Sentinel within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 16 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucester - 5 £600 -
Azure Sentinel
South West

Azure Sentinel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) SIEM Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) SOC Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) SOC Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Case Management
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kibana
1 2 (40.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft